US Saturn Release #011 - Street Fighter: The Movie

Played on a real American Sega Saturn with the Fenrir ODE

I have no idea what to say for this one. On one hand, it plays a lot like the later Street Fighter 2 revisions with a lot of the same characters, so people used to Street Fighter 2 will have an easy time adapting to this, and because those later revisions are good, this controls fine.

but on the other hand, I played this for like half an hour and had absolutely no fun. I tried out the story mode which forces you to play a guile and I just got my shit rocked by Balrog. I got better and better and understood the game more, sure, but it was like 5 hits and I'm down.

The graphics also look terrible, and that's not just because it's real people photographed and digitized. The arcade version of this game looks far better than this and this still uses a lot of the same sprites. However they're all way lower quality with less frames of animation and it really makes the Saturn look bad. Doesn't help that the backgrounds and UI look pretty bad too.

So if you're used to Street Fighter 2, you might get a kick out of it, though I wouldn't jump to saying that you will definitely have fun. You'll probably just see it as a "so bad it's good" kind of experience with your friends. If you're new to Street Fighter and are solo, stay away. I'd recommend jumping into 3rd Strike or the alpha series instead (and after all, the Saturn got ports of the alpha games).

5/10

I was wondering why something about this game felt even better than playing it on the cabinet and it turns out this iteration plays similar to Street Fighter 2 turbo which, to me, is the only good release of SF2. didn't even notice the additional characters at first. game has a pretty decent soundtrack now that im not surrounded by a bulkload of arcade machines. im bumping up my rating from the arcade release simply because id like to imagine the extras in the background had fun working on the game